Alaric

#1,063 for boys in 2025, 205 births

Peak · boys
2020 · 279 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,961
since 1949

Alaric over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Alaric has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201959boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#1,063205
2024#1,108193
2023#1,073201
2022#913253
2021#855274
2020#822279
2019#875251
2018#970214
2017#996203
2016#1,090180
2015#1,077183
2014#1,201153
2013#1,420117
2012#1,71188
2011#2,47850
2010#2,91440
2009#3,83127
2008#3,22135
2007#3,13536
2006#2,97937
2005#2,56743
2004#3,01433
2003#2,99332
2002#3,25927
2001#2,79733
2000#2,99329
1999#2,30039
1998#3,48621
1997#2,98125
1996#2,91125
1995#3,10022
1994#2,76626
1993#3,14121
1992#2,99922
1991#3,32518
1990#2,86522
1989#3,20518
1988#3,70513
1987#3,52113
1986#4,4579
1985#3,07015
1984#3,70111
1983#2,57718
1982#2,97215
1981#3,03014
1980#3,61511
1979#2,56818
1978#3,07013
1977#4,1648
1976#2,41718
1975#2,54016
1974#2,45916
1973#2,12419
1972#1,81924
1971#2,27917
1970#1,79424
1969#1,86120
1968#1,83619
1967#2,03015
1966#2,13214
1965#1,98716
1964#2,20514
1963#1,79220
1962#1,75721
1961#2,53811
1960#3,3377
1959#2,41412
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First appearance
1949

The first year at least five boys were named Alaric! It came in at #3,019, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1950–1953, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Alaric is popular in 1959

No state had 5 or more boys named Alaric in 1959, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Alaric
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 45 spots since 2024 (#1,108 → #1,063)
  • 241 spots since 2020 (#822 → #1,063)
  • 14 spots since 2015 (#1,077 → #1,063)
  • Biggest jump: 95 spots in 2019 (#970 → #875)
  • Biggest drop: 160 spots in 2023 (#913 → #1,073)
Rise & fade · boys
71 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1949
  • Peaked 2020 at #822 (279 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 6 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2017–2022
Share of babies · boys
1 in 6,187
  • Highest: 1 in 6,187 boys born in 2020 were named Alaric (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 8,332 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 37.3% of all boys named Alaric (1,479) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s7#3,019 (1949)#3,019
1950s30#2,414 (1959)#3,220
1960s157#1,757 (1962)#2,148
1970s173#1,794 (1970)#2,523
1980s137#2,577 (1983)#3,385
1990s241#2,300 (1999)#2,987
2000s332#2,567 (2005)#3,079
2010s1,479#875 (2019)#1,473
2020s1,405#822 (2020)#972

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Alaric in 1959

boys
#2,414
12 births · 1 in 177,877 boys

Top boys' names in 1959

  1. #1Michael85,294
  2. #2David83,977
  3. #3James78,648
  4. #4John76,446
  5. #5Robert74,542
  6. #6Mark56,945
  7. #7William51,386
  8. #8Richard47,202
  9. #9Thomas40,296
  10. #10Steven33,597
  11. #2,414Alaric12
More about 1959

boys

2,134,518 boys got a published name in 1959; 1 in 177,877 of them was named Alaric, which outranked 47.2% of the 4,572 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 29.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alaric
  1. #2,295Wyndell13
  2. #2,295Zackery13
  3. #2,295Zoltan13
  4. #2,414Alaric12
  5. #2,414Acie12
  6. #2,414Adelbert12
  7. #2,414Adolf12
  8. #2,530Adonis11
  9. #2,530Alexandro11
  10. #2,530Alvah11

Tied with 115 names at #2,414; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1958
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,208Efrem#3,033 → #825
  2. ↑ 901Darin#1,677 → #776
  3. ↑ 871Yancy#1,557 → #686
  4. ↑ 708Raynard#1,677 → #969
  5. ↑ 644Darrin#1,396 → #752
Fallers
  1. ↓ 307Jace#761 → #1,068
  2. ↓ 241Otha#915 → #1,156
  3. ↓ 234Cheryl#994 → #1,228
  4. ↓ 230Dann#969 → #1,199
  5. ↓ 227Carnell#777 → #1,004

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1959 →